Quotes About Hobbies

Honestly, I'm not a soccer fan. I'm not a golf fan.

Hockey and soccer weren't my thing.

I actually played a lot of other sports - table tennis and soccer for a long time.

I play basketball, I play soccer, I draw, uh I like girls.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realise that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.

I work very, very hard, so when I do get the chance to go out socially, it's a relatively big night. I also have hobbies on the side, and quite often, one runs into the other.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.

I actually enjoy talking about some things other than football.

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

These days, unfortunately, people of means may no longer have the time and interest to pursue such hobbies.

I split my adolescence between the pulpy smell of books, which was my mother's passion, and the leathery smell of baseball gloves, which was my father's.

I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read.

The real Doctor Fitzpiers was a man of too many hobbies to show likelihood of rising to any great eminence in the profession he had chosen, or even to acquire any wide practice in the rural district he had marked out as his field of survey for the present.

Most wealthy people have a wide variety of interests and activities. In fact, there is a substantial correlation between the number of interests and activities that people are involved in and their level of financial wealth.

There are more avid postage stamp collectors in the United States than welfare recipients.

Life can't be all work. There's a whole wide world to enjoy.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

If you leave me alone for a day . . . I'll have a joyful time rotating between carpentry, weight training, writing, playing around with instruments in the music studio, making lists and executing tasks from them.

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache . . . unless you play golf.